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ind SimMarly -constructed SPRINGS made after 
convenience of S%)ring Dealers and Coach Btiilders. 



Minor plate thickness 
ccording to any given 
:iape, length or height, 
so to get the required 
lickness of spring and 
lasticity for the weight 


Stubb's 

Gauge of 

Steel after 

made. 


Usually the 

Weight 

required for 

half down. 


W T eight 
to press 
together 


Front 
Spring. 


Hind 
Spring. 


USUAL VEHICLES. 


if- 2 and 6 | 1040 


1663 




Hind | Heavy Wagons or Busses, &c. 


1 3 
64 


2 and 6 | 1019 


1590 


Front 


do do 


if | 2 and 5 | 927 


1414 


| Hind | Heavy Express Wagons. 


if | 3 and 6 | 821 1276 Front do do 


if- | 2 and 5 


830 1333 


Hind Heavy Carriages. 


ft | 3 and 5 


757 | 1166 | Front 


do do 


14 
64 


3 and 5 


628 | 1029 | Hind do do 


13 

5" 4 


3 and 6 


519 851 


Front | do do 


.14 

54 


8 and 5 


543 | 803 


| Hind Two-seat Carriages. 


13 
¥4 


3 and 6 


441 633 | Front 


do do 


14 
"64 


3 and 5 


457 686 


if 3 and 6 343 492 





if 3 and 6 422 655 Hind Heavy Buggies. 


13 

64 


3 and 6 358 | 519 | Front do 


it 3 and 5 | 710 1118 Hind Heavy Business Wagons. 


if 3 and 6 621 | 1003 Front do. do 


it 3 and 5 369 | 547 | 


if 3 and 7 | 366 541 Hind | Top Buggies. 


it | 4 and 7 | 308 462 Front | do 


if | 3 and 6 295 | 444 00 00 


a |3and5 562 | 825 Hind Two-seat Wagons, \J^ - 


it | 4 and 6 457 663 Front do do 


it | 3 and 5 | 323 458 | 


it |3and7| 311 | 453 | |Hind Top or Trotting Buggies. 


H 4 and 7 262 386 Front do .do 


it 3 and 7 320 469 Hind | Top or Trotting Buggies. 


it 4 and 7 | 271 391 Front do da 


if 4 and 6 426 632 


it | 3 and 7 454 670 Hind Light Business Wagons. 


1 2 
64 


| 5 and 7 404 587 Front do do do 


1 1 

6 4" 


| 5 and 8| 363. 524 | 


it | 4 and 7 | 352 473 | Hind | Trotting Buggies. 


it 5 and 7 275 393 Front | do do 


it 5 and 8 . 261 369 Common Sulkies. 


it | 6 and 7 | 346 564 Hind Buggies, &c.. 


it | 6 and 8 266 374 Front do 


A | 7 & 10 215 448 Patent Sulky. 


it 6 and 9 262 409 Hind Light Vehicle. 


it 7 and 9 225 341 Front 


it 7 and 9 273 426 0.0 


it 7 and 8 298 439 Hind | do do 


l\ 7 and 8 251 385 Front | | do do 



EVIDENCE 

That THE GREATEST IMPROVEMENT of the age has been 
brought to perfection by J. G. REIFF, after experimenting 
5 years, and at a cost of thousands of dollars. 
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We the Undersigned 

H MAKER 

AND 

SIPZE^IIsra- DEALERS 

@©rr j tB% that W© km® Eievep msedl, qp 8©©bd a 

SptHicug ms:©dl tEt&t li §© Ekrctita tfw Bigfot 

weight acid) Ss tfi§ sam© to> p©- 

sttt heavy weight 

By giving Springs the required number and thinner plates than usual, to 

the required thickness of spring according to height, length and shape 

made by closely calculated rules, to have the proper elasticity for the 

weight it has to bear and uot to break or bend so soon. 

GEO. M. STEINMAN, Hardware Dealer, Lancaster, Pa. 

A. W. & J. R.KUSSEL, Hardware Dealers, Lancaster, Pa. 

BAKD & EEBEE, Hardware Dealers, Reading, Pa. * 

A. B. LANDIS, Coaehmakers, Mt. Joy, Pa. *Zo 

S. &H. Grosh, " Litiz, Pa. £P ^ " 

Samuel B. Cox & Co. <( Lancaster, Pa. 

D. A. Altick, " " - 

II. B. Bueh, « New Haven, Pa. 

A. B. Sheaffer, " Ephrata, Pa. 

M. E. Steigerwalt, " Lancaster, Pa. 

A. McGinnes & Son, " " 
S. Dillman, " New Holland, Pa. 
C. Krebs, '• Reading, Pa. 

B. Gehris, " " 
Johnson & Wilson, " • Oxford, Pa. 
Christian Myers, " Columbia, Pa. 
Stouer & Marlett, - -*' - Pittsburg, Pa. 
Carr & Hare, " " 
I. S. Shaffer, << " ^ Q 5 

BUT USE YOUR AUTHORITY TO ASK COACH 
MAKERS FOR AND SEE CARRIAGE SPRINGS 
STAMPED, REIFF'S IMPROVED, AND 
ALSO WHICH MAKERS THEY USE. 
Which improvement claims, the increase of plates in a spring, and 
consists in certain effections by closely calculated rules for the purpose 
intended, and these springs take the place of all the various names of 
springs, such as English, Swedish or cast steel springs, and those called 
English or oil tempered, etc. Which springs have not the proper spring- 
ing power. 

Contradiction, etc. of Spring-makers. 

Why do you want so many plates ; take less and thicker plates ; we 
have not such sizes of steel. F. B. Hawley, Supt., Bridgeport, Conn. 
I do not think so high and short a spring can be made and come 
together and not break or bend. M. Shoemaker, Phila. 

Your order is quite different from the elliptic springs, we made before. 

Hailman, Kahm & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 

You first get a good mechanic to calculate the proportion ; what do 

we knW what you want. Eider & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 

We received the Box of your kind of Springs ordered to Newark, and 

examined them carefully. We wish the- exclusive manufacturing. 

Tomlinson Spring Co., Bridgeport, Conn. 
Order received and made a spring after your mode of construction, and 
think it is the very best way to make springs 

C. C. Bullock, Sec'y, Bridgeport, Conn. 
These Springs are applied by the following Coaehmakers : 
Humphreys & Low, 452, 454 and 45G, Dillwyn St., Phila. 
W. D. Sogers, 1009 and 1011 Chestnut St., " 

Jos. E. Wenger, Filbert below Eighth St., " 

A. McGinnes & Son, Lancaster, Pa. 



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To all Whom it kay Co 

Be it known that ] 

have invented new and us 

following is a full and exai 

letters of reference marked 

The nature of my in 

usually made, and at the p 

obtained or possessed by a|s 

tiplicd and their thickness 

Spring, as also to the wcig 

By my mode of con 

gently tapering from the < 

upon more equally than i 

way, in a spring of equal 

order to enable those skill 

operation. 

I construct my spr:J 

plates, in width, thickness id 

to the amonnt of weight t< 

leaves are usually fastened 

by the size and strength rtfri 

multiplied or increased in pt 

being of uniform thickne ft 

number of leaves that the 

my discovery, when a spr j 

dividing the saine-thieknes* 

even obtain a circular fon| 

in constructing springs. • 

Having thus, fully dlr 

What I claim, and ji 

Elliptic and other | 

that is, when the number • | 

greater elastici y under til 

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ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. ,0 02 ' 470 348 4 

dCOB G. BJEIFF of LANCASTER,, I>A. 

69, 588, Dated October 8th, 1867; Eeissue No. 3,241, Dated Dec. 22d, 1868. 

rniBi » issm—i 

WEMENT IN CARRIAGE SPRINGS. 

iliule Referred to in these Letters Patent and Making Part of the same. 



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1'A.cob G. Eeiff, of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster, and State of Pennsylvania, 
111 Improvements in constructing Carriage Springs; and I do hereby declare that the 
ic description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the 
areon. - 

ition consists in multiplying or increasing the leaves or plates of the spring from those 

lie time decreasing their thickness, thereby gaining and maintaining an elasticity not 

spring now in use. for the purpose specified, the leaves or plates of a Spring being mul- 

linished by my discovery, in proportion to or according to the height or length of a 

t may have to bear or carry, and according to the temper of the material used. 

iction, the leaves or plates being of uniform thickness through their lengths, or made 

jjr.re, and multiplied to the thickness and resisting-power required, all the parts are acted 

i jprings of the usual constructoin. Nor can the same elasticity be gained in any other 

" fth and bow, though an increased amount of weight be brought to bear upon it. In 

l|n the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and 

in elliptic or other forms, of steel, or any other suitable material, and graduate the 

| id number, to suit the length, height, shape, and bow, so to gain the elasticity according 

carried. I fasten the leaves or plates A, Figure 1, in the same manner as plates or 

springs. The main or back plate or leaf B is regulated, as to its individual thickness, 

( jred at the ends or joints 0, Figure 3, the remaining plates or leaves A, Figure 1, being 

portion to the thickness of the spring and elasticity required or desired. The leaves 

through their length, or tapering gently or gradually from the centre, the greater thq 

:ng may be composed of, the greater amount of elasticity will be gained. By means of 

| j has no elasticity under a certain weight, I make it elastic under the same weight, by 

the sp ring into more- plates. I can also make very short and high springs, and can 



desired. I can also use much harder and much softer material than is ordinarily used 

i( i ibed my invention. 

( ire to secure by Letters Patent, is — 

ilar springs, when constructed and arranged as described, for the purpose set forth ; 

baves or plates is increased and their thickness diminished, for the purpose of gaining 
I nme weight, substantially in the manner described for the purpose set forth, 

IAS, 

JACOB G. REIFF. 










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No. of 
Spring?. 


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The shori.er 
according the 
higher more & 
thinner plates 
are required. 


Width 
of 1 or 
IK to 3. 


Width 

of 
IK to 3. 


Width 

of 
l%to3. 


Width 

of 
2 to 3. 


Any 

height 

up to 

circle. 


N*o. of plates according to 
height or shape, or for 
any given weight, and 
elasticity is required or 
desired. 


The main or back 
regulated as to its 
dual thickness so 
bearing with tue 
plates. 


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